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Friday Reading List - 18 March 2022
Friday Reading List - 18 March 2022
Friday Reading List - 18 March 2022
Good morning and happy Friday!
Here are the links to the four newsletters we published this week:
Monday: Colombia - Quick thoughts on the primaries
Tuesday: Region - Women’s movements mobilize for 8-M
Wednesday: Politics and Polls (Peru and Colombia)
Thursday: Mexico - Violence in Nuevo Laredo
Thanks to all the paying subscribers who support the newsletter. We’ll be holding an event for paying subscribers on 31 March at 11AM EDT to talk about the impact of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine on Latin America and answer questions. An invite link to sign up will be sent in a newsletter next week.
Reading List
Americas Quarterly - Winners and Losers in Latin America’s Commodities Market
Noahpinion - The US needs a Latin America policy
The Economist - A new group of left-wing presidents takes over in Latin America
The Economist - Chile’s new president won from the left. Can he govern like that?
LAVCA - 2022 LAVCA Trends in Tech
The Guardian - Human rights officials call for Pegasus spyware ban at El Salvador hearing
The Guardian - How fracking is taking its toll on Argentina's indigenous people
New York Times - The Key Argument on Abortion That Changed Everything in Colombia
Washington Post - In Colombia, abortion is no longer a crime. But rural women will still find it hard to get one.
El País - Francia Márquez, the Colombian electoral phenomenon
Foreign Policy - Washington Must Respond to China’s Growing Military Presence in Latin America
The Guardian - ‘Risky, profitable, exciting’: TikTok fuels Bolivia’s contraband car craze
Americas Quarterly - Problems Mount for Ecuador’s Lasso
Diálogo Chino - Ecuador’s proposed FTA with China generates opportunities and concerns
Financial Times - El Salvador prepares to launch bitcoin bond: ‘If this fails, a lot of doors close’
Rest of World - Six months in, El Salvador’s bitcoin gamble is crumbling
New York Times - In Reversal, Guatemala Shelves Anti-Abortion Law
Foreign Policy - Hernández’s Arrest Won’t Stop the Drug War
Insight Crime - Uruguay Asks Difficult Questions About Italian Mobster's Jailbreak
New York Times - The War for the Rainforest
Foreign Policy - Bolsonaro Is Learning All the Wrong Lessons From Jan. 6
New York Times - Submarine Spy Couple Tried to Sell Nuclear Secrets to Brazil
Bloomberg - Bolsonaro Rolls Out $32 Billion Social Plan With Eye on Election
Financial Times - Precarious favela life is undermined by corruption
Bloomberg - Latin American Finance’s Most Powerful Woman Tested by Inflation
Insight Crime - Mom-and-Pop Stores: Perfect Money Laundering Vehicles on US-Mexico Border
The Guardian - Battle-scarred ghost town bears mute witness to Mexico’s drug wars
El País - ‘Fentanyl is being sold everywhere. Mexico is a producer and consumer’
Insight Crime - Northeast Cartel Leader's Arrest May Aid CJNG Expansion Along US-Mexico Border
The Guardian - Eighth Mexican journalist to be killed in 2022 is shot outside his home
Natural Gas Intel - Don’t Expect Mexico Oil, Natural Gas Supply to Bail Out Global Energy Markets
Independent - México abre las puertas a millonarios rusos que huyen de las sanciones internacionales
Bloomberg - Engaging Venezuela Is Worth the Gamble
WLRN - To lift or not to lift? Biden overture sparks oil sanctions debate among Venezuelans
El País - Between Russia and the US: How Venezuela is playing both sides in the Ukraine conflict
International Crisis Group - A Twist in Caracas: Is a Venezuela-U.S. Reboot on the Cards?
Caracas Chronicles - As Central and North American Countries Impose Visas, Rivers Claim Venezuelan Lives
New York Times - Oligarchs Got Richer Despite Sanctions. Will This Time Be Different?
New York Times - The U.S. Is the Only Sanctions Superpower. It Must Use That Power Wisely.
Foreign Policy - Digital Human Rights Need a Single Home in U.S. Government
Upcoming Events
18 March, WOLA - Suffering in the Shadows: The impact of drug-related incarceration on family members
18 March, AS/COA - Mexico in the Global Arena
18 March, Fitch - In Conversation: Mexican Energy Reform
23 March, AS/COA - Trade, Investment, and the Fight for Regional Democracy
23 March, AS/COA - Argentina: A Discussion with Minister of Productive Development Matías Kulfas
24 March, Inter-American Dialogue - Latin America’s Lagging Economies and Setting Priorities for Health Investment
24 March, AS/COA - U.S. Trade Policy in the Western Hemisphere
29 March, Brookings - China’s role in poaching and wildlife trafficking in Mexico
31 March, AEI - Latin America’s inflation challenge
6 April, AS/COA - Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
Thanks for reading
Have a great weekend!